This is a short story that I randomy had an idea for. First one I've ever written and I wrote the second half during a movie and was getting tired so be gentle. This is just writing for writings sake.
A smooth breeze brushed the back of his head, combing his hair and taking with it the days trials and troubles that often found their home weighted down atop this shoulders. The tension dripped off and fell into the wind almost as fluidly and elegantly as his sweat as the day was quite warm. This was welcomed with open arms as tensions had risen rapidly over the past couple weeks which brings us here. To this bench. The bench seemed like as good of a spot as any to sit, to ponder... to escape. The serenity of the area was unparalleled. Crotch rockets revved their engines and flew off into the evening like bullets being spewed over the concrete terrain while the steady buzz of air conditioners created an ambient background noise. A football team was grunting off in the distance, like a pack of rams colliding for dominance in a never ending battle, perpetuated by their malevolent leader. To most, this scene would seem of everyday life or even an irritation but to the boy, this was peace.
Questions of life began to swirl through his head as they often had, though given the placid yet busy surroundings, not quite to the chaotic degree he had became so accustomed too in those scarlet eyed early morning hours. Upon his pondering, he had noticed what felt like raindrops on his legs.
How could this be?, he thought.
There isn't a cloud in sight and the ground is.. and at that very moment he looked to the ground and noticed it covered at least an inch deep in water. The water kept rising as if there was a tide coming in from all directions, his bench being the central destination. Water. It kept crashing in on the bench and the boys legs until it had completely consumed the landscape and it seemed as though the boy would be lost at sea until finally, he crashed into a sandy beach. Upon further analysis, the boy came to the conclusion that this was no ordinary beach. The beach had no sand but instead a brilliant white ivory surface that shimmered in the sun the way a diamond would on the ring finger of a new bride. After walking for some time, there came a tree line of sorts but there
were no trees. No, the boy hadn't an idea of what these slender black poles could be but thought it wise of him to climb up for a better look at the area. What came next, no one could have prepared themselves for.
Half way up one of the poles, the boy could see the ivory coast line surrounding the sapphire ocean that had

engulfed the area and more importantly, his bench, but there was something further out, something he hadn't seen. There, right at the center of the ocean, was a black hole.
A whirlpool?, he wondered.
NO!, he exclaimed. He knew where he had seen this before. A macro photograph of a human eye... he was in an eye, but how was this possible? No later did this revelation come about that a huge movement in the pole, or eyelash rather, that he was climbing caused him to fall what seemed like stories into the ocean...erm, Iris.
A force then began pulling him. Calling to his body yet little known to the mind. The only time he had ever felt such a sensation was while being pulled into, and becoming "one" with a couch among home furnishings under the influence of psychedelics. This, however, was something new, something much stronger. He entered what he had thought to be a whirlpool in same manner a plane breaks the sound barrier, with incredible force, and all at once he was spinning, spinning, spinning.
When everything slowed down, he was sitting in a chair, dry, watching the dryer... spinning, spinning, spinning. Then suddenly, he was fully alert. What just happened?! Where am I?! He looked around. Posters, flyers, chunks of wall missing and gang signs carved into the chairs. Pitchforks, crowns, pitchforks turned into crowns, the Star of David. He knew it at once.
He turned around slowly, knowing in the back of his mind what he'd find. Sure enough, there she was. In fact, there
they were. He recognized the laundry mat, a desolate and run down building that was the site of one of their first run in's with poverty. They had come here to discuss things while doing a copious amount of laundry. It was the milestone in their relationship. Their first real struggle, their first taste of what was about to come.
As the boy watched the two, reminiscing on the moment they shared there in the laundry mat that day, he smiled. He had never loved anyone the way he loved her and never would because nothing else mattered when he was with her. Just at this moment the dryer flew open. Clothes began flying out of the dryer and covering the walls and the people until nothing was visible. All that was visible to anyone was blackness... and all was silent.
A furious scream broke the silence, followed by the sound of glass exploding against a wall. The boy awoke in a pile of clothes, his room hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Running out into the living he saw a familiar scene. Mom and Dad duking it out and he was just in time for round 3. Words were exhanged as were attatcks, wedding dishes were thrown, fingers broken, and bathrooms destroyed. The boy longed for the ghetto laundry mat, even if he was completely broke... he was happy. He had remembered all that had happened in this house. The divorce was coming soon. He sat trasparent, watching the fight unfold, emotions pulling the strings on the marionettes. This was not a day he wanted to revisit. This was not a
period he wanted to visit. He walked out of the room. He had seen enough of this. Just as he turned around a hand flew out of no where and struck him across the face. It was like Hiroshima all over again. A bomb was dropped, the aftershock rippled across his face, all lights were out.
The boy slowly got back up, his cheek hurt from the fall but his knee was more scraped up than anything. The fall had been devistating to both his body and his pride. Riding a bike. Such an easy task, yet just out of grasp. The ride had been a glorious one. Immedietly after learning how to ride, he had decided to race. The outcome of which should be quite apparent. He decided, after a little of lemonade and first aid to give it another go. Down the block he flew. Flying... faster than anyone had ever gone before. The jump was small but sure, speed was key in matters such as this. The jump was meters away... it hits. He is flying through the air. Freedom. The kind of freedom slaves felt once freed. The kind of freedom the first aviators and sky divers felt. Gravity. It posed a threat to this freedom, this split second of bliss. Falling. Falling. Falling.
Thud. The floor seems so hard to the boy. Everything so large. Noises and movement are made directly following the fall. It was only a small distance off a cusion but they moved so fast. Things are confusing. He cries. Things go blurry and suddenly he gets tired. Something is put into his mouth. They call it a pacifier. All goes black again.
Light. It burns his eyes. The police officer patroling informs the young man that the area is closed and he must leave the bench. What had happened, he wonders. What's going on?! In an odd way he felt relieved. He remembered some of the bad times and some of the good. There is always going to be the trials and troubles and there will always be the tiny momments of bliss that make them all worth while. He badly needed to remember this, given the nature of the times.Perhaps this was the point of his reverie. Or maybe I just fell asleep.
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